Web search engines often federate many user queries to relevant structured databases. For example, a product related query might be federated to a product database containing thei...
FPGAs have appealing features such as customizable internal and external bandwidth and the ability to exploit vast amounts of fine-grain parallelism. In this paper we explore the ...
Nearest neighbor (NN) searches represent an important class of queries in geographic information systems (GIS). Most nearest neighbor algorithms rely on static distance informatio...
Wei-Shinn Ku, Roger Zimmermann, Haojun Wang, Chi-N...
The representation of moving objects in spatial database systems has become an important research topic in recent years. As it is not realistic to track and store the location of ...
Data warehouses and OLAP systems help to interactively analyze huge volume of data. This data, extracted from transactional databases, frequently contains spatial information whic...
Sandro Bimonte, Anne Tchounikine, Maryvonne Miquel